Tuesday, January 6, 2009

This post originally introduced my artwork, and I included a batch of works in one post. I've since reposted them individually so they can be easier referenced and the site will load faster.

I kept this post here because of the comments, I didn't want to lose those.Thanks to all who posted comments or sent eMails so far, you've been very nice.

This self-portrait, at age 18, was done overnight when we were assigned to do a 'flat painting' in college, which is impossible. As soon as you put anything down with paint, you create space and destroy the two dimensional aspect of a surface. My solution was to do a painting of a flat object, so to signify that it was flat I used a yearbook proof photograph so the realistic painting was of a flat object. My professor said I solved it intellectually, so he loved it.

Digital Copyright

New Photography Blog

Portraits Only

Check out my new Jose Sinclair Portraits blog - all my portrait drawings and photos in one location (and photos of the artist from other humanoids) - just started, my scanned 35mm slides are still soon to follow

Duane Allman

Charcoal pencil (the Allmans lived next door to my grandmother in Macon) - the last of three portraits I did of Duane ($1000)

About the Artist

B.F.A., cum laude, Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia (1972). Journalism and art scholarships, I was seduced by beauty and left writing for art.

How to Buy My Artwork

Some of these are for sale, you'll see prices; others I'll accept email bids and either accept the bid or post it here as "best offer". A few of these are gone already (NFS, not for sale), I just wanted to display them for everyone to see, including those I won’t sell while alive – you can get those when I’m dead for nothing if you can find me! Email: wmjosesinclair@gmail.com

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When I Say "Box Framed"

Box frame: a 'shadow-box', a half-inch gap of space between the masonite painting and the lattice edging (really there just for protection), so they look like they're floating in a box, not touching the frame. I find real frames on paintings to be distracting and try to hide the framing as much as possible and make it look like a small thin line, just like the borders on these digital images. I paint on tempered masonite board (for its smooth glassy surface), not canvas, which has a distracting and rough texture. Da Vinci painted on wood also, usually heavy oak; the Mona Lisa weighs 80 lbs unframed.